The fabrication of robust and highly efficient oil-water separation filters the high temperature sintering of silica micropower.

Superhydrophobic materials have been shown to have many attractive properties, however, their functionality can easily be lost due to the failure of the air layer. For long lasting air layer retention, dedicated mechanisms to maintain this layer and/or reintroduce air into the system are essential. Any air reintroduction control would allow for increased air lifetime but would require a porous material that allows air flow to be effective.

Investigating the viability of sulfur polymers for the fabrication of photoactive, antimicrobial, water repellent coatings.

Elemental sulfur (), a by-product of the petroleum refining industries, possesses many favourable properties including photocatalytic activity and antibacterial activity, in addition to being intrinsically hydrophobic. Despite this, there is a relative lack of research employing elemental sulfur and/or sulfur copolymers within superhydrophobic materials design. In this work, we present the use of sulfur copolymers to produce superhydrophobic materials with advanced functionalities.

The challenges, achievements and applications of submersible superhydrophobic materials.

Superhydrophobic materials have been widely reported throughout the scientific literature. Their properties originate from a highly rough morphology and inherently water repellent surface chemistry. Despite promising an array of functionalities, these materials have seen limited commercial development.

Diabetic Gastroparesis: Perspectives From a Patient and Health Care Providers.

Gastroparesis is defined as a delay in gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction in the stomach. Gastroparesis has a number of causes, including postsurgical, secondary to medications, postinfectious, idiopathic, and as a complication of diabetes mellitus, where it is underrecognized. The cardinal symptoms of diabetic gastroparesis are nausea, early satiety, bloating, and vomiting.

Solution-Based Single-Molecule FRET Studies of K(+) Channel Gating in a Lipid Bilayer.

Ion channels are dynamic multimeric proteins that often undergo multiple unsynchronized structural movements as they switch between their open and closed states. Such structural changes are difficult to measure within the context of a native lipid bilayer and have often been monitored via macroscopic changes in Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between probes attached to different parts of the protein. However, the resolution of this approach is limited by ensemble averaging of structurally heterogeneous subpopulations.